AR-News: (US) Washington farm is hog heaven

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[from Fort Wayne News Sentinel]

STANWOOD, Wash. - (KRT) - Consider the pig. The animal's intelligence and
cleanliness are often - wrongfully - maligned. And most people think it
makes a better pork roast than pet.

Judy Woods considers the pig. She considers its well-being and health,
and she worries that fate is seldom kind to the barnyard mainstay.

She also considers pigs friends.

Woods runs the 34-acre Pigs Peace Sanctuary, the only such sanctuary in
Washington. There's one other pig sanctuary in West Virginia and maybe
less than a half-dozen in the nation, by her estimation.

Woods calls the 90 or so pigs at the sanctuary by name. They walk up to
her, and she scratches their ears.
...
On a scale of animal intelligence, Woods noted, pigs rank third, behind
dolphins and primates. Dogs are 13th.

Such enlightenment is a key part of the sanctuary theme. There's an
education center, where visitors are taught about pigs, vegetarianism and
facets of animal existence.
...
Woods, 49, grew up in the Northgate area of Seattle. When she was about
15, during a period when news about seal-pup slaughters in Canada was
first emerging, the letter discussed what hypocrites humans were to think
that animals were going to slaughter willingly. Woods became a
vegetarian.

full story:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/8818469.htm

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